Open Access Publishing Seminars

Invitation to Open Access Publishing Seminar’s in London on the 24th September 2012 and Manchester on 25th of September 2012.

The event is organized by <link http: www.versita.com _self external link in new>Versita, whose parent company is <link http: www.degruyter.com _self external link in new>De Gruyter. We hope to introduce ourselves and the professional publishing programs offered by Versita to scholarly journals, series and books as well as discussing the move towards Open Access Publishing in the academic community. We hope that you or one of your associates will be available to join us for what promises to be an enjoyable and informative event.

Costs: participation is free of charge; organizers do not refund travel or accommodation.

LONDON
Time: September 24, 2012, from 10:30 to 14:30, including coffee break
Venue: University of London, Senate House - Beveridge Hall, Malet Street, London
Link:www.senatehouseevents.co.uk/conferences/beveridge-hall
Costs: participation is free of charge; organizers do not refund travel or accommodation expenses

MANCHESTER
Time: September 25, 2012, from 10:30 to 14:30, including coffee break
Venue: Sachas Hotel - Manchester (Lincoln Suite), Tib Street, Piccadilly, Manchester
Link:www.hotelsachasmanchester.co.uk/Britannia_Sachas_Hotel_City_Centre_Location.html
Costs: participation is free of charge; organizers do not refund travel or accommodation

1. <link http: versita.com journal_editor open_access _self external link in new>Open Access Publishing Programs For Journals and Series – publishing journals in two leading models:

• Author-Pays: Here Versita covers all publishing costs, keeps the Article Processing Charges paid by authors, and transfer share of such revenues to journal owner.
• Journal-Pays: This option, journal owner or sponsor pays publishing fees to Versita, for the basic range of publishing services.

Each journal or series is provided with a composition of the most essential solutions and services, including:

• <link http: www.versitaopen.com _self external link in new>online hosting and distribution platform, which already hosts about 250 journals from a wealth of countries and subject areas,
• worldwide distribution to libraries; integration with library systems,
• allocation of DOI; metadata distribution to CrossRef,
• arranging for indexing by A&I services, full-text repositories, open access journal directories,
• assistance in indexing by Thomson Scientific and PubMed (biomedical journals).

Versita provides interested journals or series with many other services, including online manuscript submission and peer review system (<link http: www.editorialmanager.com _self external link in new>Editorial Manager), online production tracking and content management system (Preprint Manager), plagiarism detection system (CrossCheck), copyediting and proofreading, manuscript file composition, sales and distribution of printed copies and many others.

2. Open Access Publishing Programs For Books
Versita is launching similar programs for scholarly books:

• Author-Pays: This program is addressed to academic authors; here Versita covers all publishing costs, and keeps the Book Processing Charges paid by authors,
• Organization-Pays: In this option, a society or another organization that collates contents of the book pays publishing fees to Versita, for the full range of publishing services.

Please confirm if you are interested in attending either of the seminars by sending an email to georgina@versita.com by the 3rd of September 2012, including the city, date and listing the names of intended participants.